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Luana Ehrlich

One Night in Tehran: A Titus Ray Thriller

Synopsis

Days after his escape from Iran, he starts searching for answers, meanwhile, an assassin begins his own search—for him.
Veteran CIA officer, Titus Ray—on the run from the Iranian secret police—finds shelter with a group of Iranian Christians in Tehran. While urging Titus to become a believer in Jesus Christ, they manage to smuggle him out of Iran to freedom in Turkey.
Returning to the States, he discovers his Iranian mission failed because of political infighting within the Agency. In a hot-tempered outburst, he delivers a scathing indictment against the Deputy Director of Operations, and, as a result, the deputy forces Titus to take a year’s medical leave in Oklahoma.
Before leaving Langley, Virginia, Titus learns he’s been targeted by a Hezbollah assassin. Now, while trying to figure out what it means to be a follower of Christ, he must decide if the Iranian couple he meets in Norman, Oklahoma has ties to the man who’s trying to kill him, and if Nikki Saxon, a local detective with an intriguing past, can be trusted with his secrets.

Author Biography

Luana is an award-winning author, minister's wife, and former missionary with a passion for spy thrillers and mystery novels. She began writing the Titus Ray Thriller Series when her husband retired from the pastorate. Now she writes from an undisclosed location, trying to avoid the torture of mundane housework, grocery shopping, and golf stories. However, she occasionally comes out of hiding to see her two grandsons or to enjoy a Starbucks caramel macchiato. She resides in Norman, Oklahoma.

Author Insight

Chapter 17: Mossad, A Top-Notch Spy Agency

Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, is one of the best secret service agencies in the world. No other intelligence gathering entity has more successes at protecting itself from its enemies. Many of its exploits have been publicized, including the arrest of Adolf Eichman in Argentina for crimes he had committed against Jews in Germany and, more recently, for developing the Stuxnet computer virus which slowed down the Iranian aspirations to build a nuclear bomb. In 2001, Mossad is rumored to have warned the United States that Isalmic jihadists had slipped into the country and were planning a series of attacks, but this information was either not believed or was ignored, and the result was 9/11. Mossad's motto is taken from the Bible: Proverbs 11:4 "Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors, there is safety."

Book Excerpt

One Night in Tehran: A Titus Ray Thriller

“I gave my controller in Mossad the information I’d obtained from Talib about the American spy, and that’s when they let me know you were the operative VEVAK had targeted. My controller told me your Iranian network had been busted, and Mossad agents had saved your life. He also said Mossad had recently given the Agency some intercepts indicating Hezbollah was coming after you in the States, but they didn’t specifically know which Hezbollah agent VEVAK had sent.”

“So I’m guessing Mossad told you not to tell the Agency you knew the identity of the American spy because they knew such information would have revealed your relationship to them.”

“Yes, but I’d already made up my mind I was going to contact you, whether Mossad approved or not.”